| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 72217 | 225 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 23486 | 190 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 14096 | 28 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 12176 | 38 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9663 | 32 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7997 | 30 |
| 7 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7996 | 21 |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 7951 | 84 |
| 9 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 7743 | 200 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7123 | 18 |
| 11 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6884 | 23 |
| 12 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6835 | 107 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6391 | 24 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5959 | 11 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 5613 | 29 |
| (15) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5304 | 15 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 5246 | 29 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5237 | 24 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 5144 | 27 |
| (18) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5130 | 34 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5123 | 27 |
| 20 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4902 | 17 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4878 | 33 |
| (21) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4807 | 25 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4120 | 18 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4096 | 14 |
| 24 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3624 | 11 |
| (24) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3473 | 13 |
| 25 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3290 | 12 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3209 | 19 |
| 27 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3187 | 27 |
| 28 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3104 | 80 |
| 29 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 3052 | 59 |
| 30 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3029 | 25 |
| 31 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2992 | 53 |
| 32 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2984 | 19 |
| 33 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2926 | 13 |
| 34 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2916 | 32 |
| 35 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2840 | 21 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2824 | 23 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2792 | 21 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2688 | 13 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2676 | 21 |
| 40 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2663 | 37 |
| (40) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2610 | 21 |
| 41 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2572 | 9 |
| 42 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2555 | 21 |
| 43 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2552 | 3 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2520 | 22 |
| 45 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2516 | 26 |
| 46 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2497 | 14 |
| 47 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2478 | 13 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2324 | 19 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2318 | 20 |
| 49 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | | 2318 | 8 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2194 | 23 |
| (51) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2187 | 4 |
| 52 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2176 | 8 |
| (52) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2173 | 7 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2145 | 30 |
| 54 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2143 | 21 |
| (54) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2131 | 7 |
| (54) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2071 | 16 |
| (54) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2062 | 7 |
| 55 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2000 | 11 |
| 56 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1999 | 8 |
| (56) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1906 | 16 |
| 57 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1871 | 18 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1841 | 10 |
| (58) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1832 | 24 |
| 59 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1823 | 14 |
| 60 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1819 | 29 |
| (60) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1721 | 4 |
| 61 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1704 | 23 |
| 62 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1680 | 19 |
| 63 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1677 | 29 |
| (63) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1674 | 9 |
| 64 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1638 | 8 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1588 | 21 |
| 66 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1553 | 5 |
| (66) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1551 | 8 |
| (66) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1548 | 5 |
| 67 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1493 | 45 |
| 68 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1442 | 44 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1412 | 18 |
| 70 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1410 | 45 |
| (70) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1382 | 13 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1381 | 27 |
| (71) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1357 | 25 |
| (71) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1350 | 5 |
| (71) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1329 | 4 |
| 72 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1306 | 6 |
| 73 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1302 | 10 |
| 74 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 1273 | 17 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1250 | 48 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1244 | 30 |
| (76) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1240 | 1 |
| (76) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1240 | 1 |
| 77 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1206 | 7 |
| 78 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1184 | 6 |
| (78) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1183 | 5 |
| (78) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1179 | 5 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1166 | 10 |
| 80 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1138 | 10 |
| 81 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1113 | 8 |
| 82 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1101 | 15 |
| (82) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1067 | 10 |
| 83 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1047 | 8 |
| (83) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1047 | 7 |
| 84 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1019 | 7 |
| (84) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1016 | 2 |
| (84) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1014 | 18 |
| (84) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1011 | 2 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1010 | 26 |
| 86 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 998 | 14 |
| 87 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 997 | 9 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 984 | 5 |
| 89 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 975 | 23 |
| 90 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 958 | 2 |
| 91 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 957 | 8 |
| (91) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 947 | 18 |
| 91 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 947 | 18 |
| 93 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 941 | 6 |
| 94 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 924 | 14 |
| 95 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 917 | 21 |
| (95) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 913 | 3 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 887 | 6 |
| 97 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 874 | 7 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 869 | 22 |
| 99 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 868 | 31 |
| (99) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 863 | 1 |
| 100 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 858 | 4 |
| 101 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 852 | 14 |
| 102 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 849 | 5 |
| 103 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 846 | 26 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 846 | 15 |
| 105 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 844 | 19 |
| 106 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 837 | 13 |
| (106) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 831 | 16 |
| 107 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 830 | 54 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 819 | 14 |
| 109 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 818 | 40 |
| 110 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 796 | 34 |
| (110) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 777 | 12 |
| 111 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 775 | 6 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 766 | 11 |
| 113 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 763 | 37 |
| 114 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 749 | 16 |
| 115 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 742 | 2 |
| (115) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 736 | 9 |
| 115 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 736 | 10 |
| (116) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 726 | 4 |
| 117 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 713 | 7 |
| (117) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 713 | 7 |
| (117) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 709 | 1 |
| 118 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 697 | 11 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 695 | 19 |
| 120 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 689 | 10 |
| 121 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 675 | 13 |
| 122 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 673 | 11 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 668 | 12 |
| (123) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 660 | 33 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 652 | 14 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 652 | 14 |
| 126 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 641 | 3 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 637 | 15 |
| (127) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 616 | 7 |
| 127 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 616 | 17 |
| 129 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 612 | 40 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 607 | 14 |
| 131 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 606 | 3 |
| (131) | ESRC Centre for Fiscal Policy, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 597 | 4 |
| (131) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 583 | 1 |
| 132 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Université de Genève | Genève, Switzerland | 581 | 6 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 581 | 9 |
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